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- My Top Scary Technology Trends
- The Most Terrifying:Google.Kills good companies by handing out "freebies". VERY scary.Machines replacing humansI thought they were tools to enhance our experience on earth.The worst is when customer is an AI telephone. "I'm sorry, could you repeat your last phrase. I did not understand". I thought the buttons were bad enough.RE:...
- Discussion threads 2009-10-29
- RbApp 2.3 (Mac)
- RbApp is a platform-neutral collection of REALbasic classes that help programmers create industrial strength applications on Macintosh and Windows. Use RbGrid for a flexible, scaleable grid component with powerful programming control. Use RbChart for dynamic charts, graphs and tables with minimal programming. Use RbEdit for text editingfor large files with...
- Software downloads 2009-10-15
- InterGate Policy Manager 9.3.1 (Mac)
- InterGate Policy Manager - A comprehensive Internet access management solution, providing fine grained control of web content access, usage of Peer to Peer, Instant Messaging and Skype networks, logging and reporting of user activity, as well a core IP router and firewall to provide advanced protection to your network. Advanced...
- Software downloads 2009-10-09
- Attention big "emitters": Are you ready to start coughing up greenhouse gas data?
- The United States Environmental Protection Agency EPA says it's ready to start collecting greenhouse gas emissions from some of the largest facilities across the country that are responsible for contributing up to 85 percent of our contribution to worldwide greenhouse gas emissions. Effective Jan. 1, 2010, the...
- Blog posts 2009-09-23
- Astro IIDC 4.05.03 (Mac)
- Astro IIDC works with a wide variety of low and high end, color or monochrome, 8 or 16 bit FireWire 400 or FireWire 800 cameras. It has a simple intuitive interface, can record movies, grab frames, grab averaged frames, grab sums of frames, has extensive Altivec / SSE3 optimization for...
- Software downloads 2009-09-17
- iHome iP1
- We don't associate the iHome brand with "premium" audio and cutting-edge design, but the folks there are giving it their best shot with the 100-watt iP1, which has a new look for the company known for its budget iPod audio systems.The first thing you notice about the iP1 is that...
- Product reviews 2009-09-15
- Jobsworths and Box-Wallahs...
- We've all been behind the glass in bureaucratic purgatory at some point. Having waited in line at the department of motor vehicles or similar our number finally comes up and we interact with the bureaucrat, who has some issue with your missing some...
- Blog posts 2009-09-13
- Snow Leopard Cache Cleaner 5.0.2 (Mac)
- Snow Leopard Cache Cleaner is an award winning general purpose tool for Mac OS X. sLCC makes system maintenance simple with an easy point and click interface to many OS X functions. Novice and expert users alike will appreciate the powerful toolset sLCC provides. Snow Leopard Cache Cleaner is installed...
- Software downloads 2009-09-10
- How the Web OS has begun to reshape IT and business
- What a BS conclusion ...Are you serious or just plain delusional???Using a server is not using cloud computing. In fact, any decent professional company would never even think about anything "cloud" except for basic web hosting.Let me just give you the top two most logical reasons why real companies...
- Discussion threads 2009-09-06
- Custom Industrial Controllers Outperform PLCs
- Programmable Logic Controllers, PLCs, are used extensively for industrial control applications. PLCs provide the designer with general processor architecture, a general input / output architecture, a general mechanical architecture, and general software development architecture. Industrial designer engineers, factory automation engineers, or industrial controls developers may take advantage of generalized solutions...
- White papers 2009-09-04
- VaultletSuite 2 Go 2.8.6 (Windows)
- VaultletSuite 2 Go makes it easy for you to protect and control your e-mail, passwords and valuable portable files, wherever you and USB drive may roam. VaultletSuite 2 Go uses industrial strength Open Source 2048 bit RSA public key and 256 AES encryption and provides the following services. VaultletMail: Protect...
- Software downloads 2009-09-01
- EsarControl 0.2 (Windows)
- EsarControl is a network connectivity, remote control and management solution for Windows Embedded CE, Windows XP Embedded and Windows Mobile devices and embedded systems from standard Windows Vista and XP workstations. EsarControl features a set of software components to easily connect, control and manage different kinds of computer devices: mobile...
- Software downloads 2009-09-01
- VaultletSuite 2 Go 2.8.6 (Mac)
- VaultletSuite 2 Go makes it easy for you to protect and control your e-mail, passwords and valuable portable files, wherever you and USB drive may roam. VaultletSuite 2 Go uses industrial strength Open Source 2048 bit RSA public key and 256 AES encryption and provides the following services. VaultletMail: Protect...
- Software downloads 2009-08-27
- Colbert heats up global warming
- Too funnySo, 350ppm means certain environmental disaster? And we're already above that? Hmmm...Back to the drawing board...I really REALLY resent the Chicken Littles running around screaming their heads off, and I'm gradually getting the feeling that, even if originally well-intentioned, they can't see the forest for the trees.What...
- Discussion threads 2009-08-25
- Generation Y: 'Email is unfashionable and outdated'
- Steve Clayton, Microsoft extraordinaire and geek in disguise, posted an interesting set of statistics over the weekend, via Socialnomics, on the social media revolution - the movement where media and information spreads far and wide through social techniques; Twitter and Facebook being the two best examples. Students,...
- Blog posts 2009-08-24
- ConsultantX 2.0v4 (Mac)
- SCADA Supervisory Control and Data Acquisition systems are used in industrial, mining and civil engineering applications to control distributed systems from a master location. SCADA is a very broad umbrella that describes solutions such as monitoring a remote water pumping facility so you can see the motor amps and pump...
- Software downloads 2009-08-23
- Korenix Embedded Systems - White Paper: Industrial Router Firewall and VPN Platform
- Off late Industrial Control and communications applications, the networks allowing these systems to be controlled and communicate are growing larger and more complex. Designing a network built on embedded systems technology requires that the embedded platform be robust, secure and manageable as commercial and management networks converge with industrial control...
- White papers 2009-08-21
- IDAutomation Barcode ActiveX Control 9.08 (Windows)
- This high-quality ActiveX Control is easily used to generate barcodes in Microsoft Access, Excel, Infopath, Internet Explorer, Visual Basic, Visual FoxPro and C++. Includes a signed DLL and CAB file for use in IE and InfoPath. Better than an OCX, this control is a single advanced DLL created in C++...
- Software downloads 2009-08-17
- Podcast: Why ZDNet AU loves Linux desktops
- Since you ask, noI have long ago left Windows behind when I got tired of running all the spyware/malware/defrag/registry cleaner jobs just to keep it running resonably well. I find that my computer runs better with Linux and i don't have the annoying jobs to run just about every...
- Discussion threads 2009-08-14
- EnergyProbe 5.1.6 (Windows)
- EnergyProbe is a leading edge Windows application designed for utility load researchers, account managers, building performance simulation engineers and energy consultants to help explore, summarize and analyze electric and gas load data. Because it can process almost any type of time-series interval data, it is equally useful as a general...
- Software downloads 2009-08-12
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